Holiday Traditions

My family often won't put up a tree or ornaments until Christmas eve, but once we do we hang Salvation Army cards on it. It's tradition to not walk past a Salvation Army kettle without putting your pocket change in, then the greeter (where I lived, anyway) would give you a small paper card with a verse of Scripture on it. Anyway, come Christmas Eve, we'd hang the cards we'd collected on the tree instead of buying ornaments every year since they tended to be destroyed or lost. We'd also put interesting things we'd gotten that year on it, like squished pennies or pretty stamps, airplane tickets, movie tickets, concert tickets ... that sort of thing.

Jam it back in, in the dark.